Jane Arden, Space Nurse — Kathleen Harris

Jane's exciting new career at Cape Canaveral suddenly threatens her life as a woman.

As Jane embarked upon the most exciting adventure of her career, she was forced to postpone her marriage to handsome Jeff Wallace.

Jane had no way of foreseeing the personal crisis that would confront her as a “space nurse.” Nor could she have anticipated the lasting impact of the two attractive astronauts she met at Cape Canaveral.

Fascinating Clyde McLaren, a strong candidate for the moon shot, was brilliant and quite friendly. Or did he want more than friendship?

And what of the dashing continental Lieutenant who made it clear that he was more than interested in her? Just where did his interest lie?

Jane Arden becomes an active participant in the Space Age in this exciting and out-of-this-world story of life and Cape Canaveral.

Happy in her job as Director of the Julia Freidmont Children's Memorial Hospital in Florida, and engaged to Jeff Wallace, hospital director and farmer-rancher, Jane had been looking forward to a real vacation with her family in Ohio before she and Jeff were married.

Then, like a bolt out of the blue, came the letter from Washington -- a letter as baffling and mysterious to Jane as all this talk of rocketing a man to the moon. Her plane ticket was waiting for her, the letter said, and Jane decided that on her way to Ohio, she would stop off in Washington and find out what it was all about. She wouldn't tell Jeff about her change of plans; neither would she tell her sister, now married to old Peter Friedmont's great-nephew.

Jane's stop-over in Washington was to be the end of her journey to Elmwood. When Major Everett told her that she was needed as a Space Nurse at Cape Canaveral, the young nurse hesitated only momentarily. Her marriage to Jeff must be postponed, her visit home canceled in fact, her whole world turned topsy-turvy. But the more Jane thought of the idea, the more intriguing it became.

Jane had no way of knowing that at the Cape she would meet fascinating Clyde McLaren, a brilliant and likely candidate for the man-to-the-moon flight. Nor did she dream that her roommate's sweetheart at the at the Base -- a handsome, overbearing Czech lieutenant -- would play an important a part in her life there.